The Great Archaeologists
by Fagan, Brian
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ (upper front & back board edges have bruise/indentations w/ creases. bump & crease to lower spine edge. smudges, wear to b
- ISBN 10
- 050005181X
- ISBN 13
- 9780500051818
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About This Item
London, England: Thames & Hudsion, 2014. Hardcover. Good+ (upper front & back board edges have bruise/indentations w/ creases. bump & crease to lower spine edge. smudges, wear to boards. dustjacket has creasing & rubbing to upper edges & spine ends; small tear to lower spine edge.). 5. grey boards w/ blind-stamped emblem, silver spine printing. 304 pgs w/ bw & 188 color illustrations. rose dustjacket w/ bw illustrations, white printing. Light abrasion to upper textblock edge; no damage to page edges. "The Great Archaeologists takes the reader on a journey from the first attempt to establish just how ancient the "ancient past" really was, through the revelatory discovery of lost civilizations and unknown cultures, right up to today's search for explanations about the past. We meet Thomsen and Worsaae, Danish researchers and rivals, and Sanz de Sautuola and Abbé Breuil, who astonished the world with their discoveries of cave art. Controversial figures such as Heinrich Schliemann and the Hungarian Aurel Stein, plunderer of ancient manuscripts from Central Asia, are given new assessments. Little-known pioneers such as Max Uhle in Peru and Li Chi in China are set beside the giants in the field from Koldewey, Dörpfeld, and Woolley in the Near East, to Louis and Mary Leakey, who transformed knowledge of our African ancestry. Other indomitable women include Gertrude Bell, Kathleen Kenyon, and the script-decipherer Tatiana Proskouriakoff. Brian Fagan has assembled a team of some of the world's greatest living archaeologists to write knowledgeably and entertainingly about their distinguished predecessors in this handsome volume, full of fascinating anecdotes, personal accounts, and unexpected insights."--Amazon.
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- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
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- 196723
- Title
- The Great Archaeologists
- Author
- Fagan, Brian
- Illustrator
- 5
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ (upper front & back board edges have bruise/indentations w/ creases. bump & crease to lower spine edge. smudges, wear to b
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 050005181X
- ISBN 13
- 9780500051818
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudsion
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- Archaeology ; Archaeology ; ;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Archaeology;
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